Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)

Girl reading, 1947

pencil, watercolour, ink and crayon on paper

9.5 x 12.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: Moore 47

Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London
C.H. Spiers, London
Sotheby’s, London, 22 June 1977, lot 186
Piccadilly Gallery, London, 1977
Mathilda and Emanuel M. Terner, Florida USA
J.A. Bauer, New York
Christie’s, New York, 10 November 1999, lot 132
Spink-Leger Pictures, London (label attached verso, as ‘Two Seated Figures’)
Private collection, acquired from the above in August 2000
Christie’s, London, 21 June 2016, lot 126
Private collection, Sydney

Garrould, A., (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Much Hadham, London, 2001, vol. 3, no. AG 47.5, HMF 2393b, pp. 254, 255 (illus.)